Table of contents

Original articles

• Double-blind, randomised clinical assay to evaluate the efficacy of probiotics in preterm newborns weighing less than 1500 g in the prevention of necrotising enterocolitis (3 May, 2012)

  Luis Alberto Fernández-Carrocera, Aide Solis-Herrera, Marisol Cabanillas-Ayón, Rocío Beatriz Gallardo-Sarmiento, Carmina Sarisol García-Pérez, Rosalba Montaño-Rodríguez, Maria Olga Leticia Echániz-Aviles
• Transfusion-associated necrotising enterocolitis in neonates (23 March, 2012)

  Amelie I Stritzke, John Smyth, Anne Synnes, Shoo K Lee, Prakesh S Shah
• Babies born at the threshold of viability: changes in survival and workload over 20 years (19 April, 2012)

  Sarah E Seaton, Sophie King, Bradley N Manktelow, Elizabeth S Draper, David J Field
• Withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: parental perspectives (23 March, 2012)

  Jonathan Hellmann, Constance Williams, Lori Ives-Baine, Prakesh S Shah
• Perceived role in end-of-life decision making in the NICU affects long-term parental grief response (25 June, 2012)

  Laurence Caeymaex, Catherine Jousselme, Caroline Vasilescu, Claude Danan, Bruno Falissard, Marie-Michèle Bourrat, Micheline Garel, Mario Speranza
• Postnatal corticosteroids and neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely low birthweight or extremely preterm infants: 15-year experience in Victoria, Australia (9 June, 2012)

  Jeanie Ling Cheong, Peter Anderson, Gehan Roberts, Julianne Duff, Lex W Doyle, Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group
• Early lactation failure and formula adoption after elective caesarean delivery: cohort study (19 April, 2012)

  Vincenzo Zanardo, Anna Pigozzo, Gary Wainer, Diego Marchesoni, Antonella Gasparoni, Sandra Di Fabio, Francesco Cavallin, Arturo Giustardi, Daniele Trevisanuto
• The 3:1 is superior to a 15:2 ratio in a newborn manikin model in terms of quality of chest compressions and number of ventilations (3 April, 2012)

  Rae Jean Hemway, Catherine Christman, Jeffrey Perlman
• A randomised trial of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor for neonatal sepsis: outcomes at 2 years (27 April, 2012)

  Neil Marlow, Timothy Morris, Peter Brocklehurst, Robert Carr, Frances M Cowan, Nishma Patel, Stavros Petrou, Maggie E Redshaw, Neena Modi, Caroline Dore
• Axillary temperature measurement during hypothermia treatment for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (3 May, 2012)

  Marc-Antoine Landry, Lex W Doyle, Katherine Lee, Susan E Jacobs
• Pulse oximetry screening for congenital heart defects in newborn infants: an evaluation of acceptability to mothers (18 May, 2012)

  Rachael Powell, Helen M Pattison, Abhay Bhoyar, Alexandra T Furmston, Lee J Middleton, Jane P Daniels, Andrew K Ewer
• Seasonal variations in healthcare-associated infection in neonates in Canada (3 May, 2012)

  Prakesh S Shah, Woojin Yoon, Zarin Kalapesi, Kate Bassil, Michael Dunn, Shoo K Lee
• Variability of respiratory parameters and extubation readiness in ventilated neonates (3 May, 2012)

  Jennifer Kaczmarek, C Omar Farouk Kamlin, Colin J Morley, Peter G Davis, Guilherme M Sant'Anna